12:40 PM ET Andy Murray has said the difference in prize money at the Dubai Championships is a “big step backwards,” with the men’s singles winner set to receive five times more the amount as compared to the women’s champion. Latvia’s Jelena Ostapenko took home $104,180 after winning the women’s WTA 500 event by beating
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3:41 AM ET US Open champion Emma Raducanu was forced to retire with a left hip injury in the deciding set of her opening match against Australia’s Daria Saville on Tuesday in the WTA 250 tournament in Guadalajara, Mexico. The 19-year-old from south London was playing her first match since last month’s painful exit in
3:55 PM ET ESPN News Services DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Second-seeded Andrey Rublev beat Daniel Evans 6-4, 7-5 in the first round of the Dubai Championships on Tuesday, just two days after winning his ninth tour title. The Russian, who defeated Felix Auger-Aliassime in the final at the Open 13 tennis tournament in Marseille,
7:23 AM ET Associated Press ACAPULCO, Mexico — Stefan Kozlov overcame leg cramps and upset Grigor Dimitrov 7-6 (8), 5-7, 6-2 to move into a second-round match against Rafael Nadal at the Mexican Open. The No. 130-ranked Kozlov got a spot in main draw as lucky loser after Maxime Cressy withdrew because of injury. Kozlov
4:53 PM ET ESPN News Services DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Novak Djokovic won his first match of the year when he defeated Lorenzo Musetti 6-3, 6-3 to open the Dubai Championships on Monday. Djokovic couldn’t defend his Australian Open title last month because he was deported from the country for being unvaccinated. The United
6:22 PM ET Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO — Spanish teenager Carlos Alcaraz beat Argentina’s Diego Schwartzman 6-4, 6-2 to win the Rio Open on Sunday. The 18-year-old Alcaraz overcame third-seeded Schwartzman in the final to the delight of Brazilian fans at the clay-court tournament. The seventh-seeded Spaniard won his first professional match in Rio
5:58 PM ET Associated Press DELRAY BEACH, Fla. — Cameron Norrie‘s year started off slowly, with four consecutive losses. He seems to have found his stride. Norrie won the third ATP Tour title of his career Sunday, with the No. 1 seed beating second-seeded Reilly Opelka 7-6 (1), 7-6 (4) in the Delray Beach Open.
12:25 PM ET Associated Press MARSEILLE, France — Second-seeded Andrey Rublev beat No. 3 Felix Auger-Aliassime 7-5, 7-6 (4) to win the Open 13 tournament Sunday, clinching his ninth career title and first in almost a year. Since winning in Rotterdam in March last year, Rublev had lost three finals. He improved to 5-0 in
12:09 PM ET Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic said on Sunday that despite weeks away from competition and emotional distress over his recent detention and deportation, he feels he’s at his “peak” as he returns to the tour. The world’s top male tennis player sounded an upbeat note
12:22 AM ET Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO — Argentina’s Diego Schwartzman and Spanish teenager Carlos Alcaraz will meet in the final of the Rio Open clay-court tournament Sunday. The third-seeded Schwartzman beat countryman Francisco Cerundolo late Saturday. Eighteen-old and seventh-seeded Alcaraz eliminated Italy’s Fabio Fognini in the first hour of Sunday. Schwartzman, ranked No.
11:37 PM ET ESPN News Services DELRAY BEACH, Fla. — Top-seeded Cameron Norrie and second-seeded Reilly Opelka will meet in the final of the Delray Beach Open on Sunday. Norrie beat fourth-seeded Tommy Paul 6-3, 6-3 in one semifinal Saturday. Opelka edged John Millman 7-6 (8), 6-7 (3), 7-6 (4) in exactly three hours in
3:38 PM ET Associated Press Roberto Bautista Agut won the Qatar Open for the second time in his career on Saturday, beating Nikoloz Basilashvili 6-3, 6-4 and claiming revenge after losing to the Georgian in last year’s final. Second seed Bautista Agut was broken in the early stages of the first and second sets, only
12:35 AM ET Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO — Top-seeded Matteo Berrettini of Italy beat Brazil’s Thiago Monteiro 6-4, 6-7 (6), 6-3 on Friday to advance to the quarterfinals of the rain-plagued Rio Open clay-court tournament. The match that was initially scheduled for Thursday evening, but ended only minutes before Saturday began in Rio de
7:59 PM ET Associated Press DELRAY BEACH, Fla. — Top-seeded Cameron Norrie reached the semifinals of the Delray Beach Open, beating No. 5 seed Sebastian Korda 6-2, 1-6, 7-6 (4) on Friday. Korda won the first two points of the deciding tiebreaker, then lost six of the next seven points and didn’t recover. He was
8:39 AM ET Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain — Australian tennis player Alex de Minaur has denied wrongdoing after being linked to a Spanish police investigation of people suspected of paying for false COVID-19 vaccination certificates. Spanish media reported that De Minaur is among 2,200 people who the National Police say are under investigation for having
8:05 PM ET Associated Press DELRAY BEACH, Fla. — Reilly Opelka’s winning streak in tiebreakers ended. His winning streak at the Delray Beach Open continued. The second-seeded Opelka rode an unbeatable first serve into the Delray quarterfinals Thursday, beating Jack Sock 6-7 (6), 7-6 (4), 6-1. It was Opelka’s sixth consecutive victory at Delray, where
5:17 PM ET Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO — Second-seeded Casper Ruud of Norway pulled out of the Rio Open clay-court tournament on Thursday with an abdominal injury. Ruud told a news conference that he was still feeling the effects of an injury he picked up during Sunday’s final of the Argentina Open, which he
10:50 AM ET Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Novak Djokovic on Thursday received a warm welcome in Dubai, where he visited the world’s fair following the global discussion around his decision to remain unvaccinated. After being twice detained and deported from Australia ahead of the year’s first Grand Slam Tournament last month, Djokovic